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Alfred Kelcey and Clara Brooks had been betrothed since childhood, and now the long-nourished hopes of the old time friends and neighbors, the Kelceys and the Brookses, were about to materialize. Jack, a dashing, flirtatious, caddish cousin of Alfred's, tires of the swift city life and goes to his country relations for an indefinite stay. Here is where the course of true love begins to zig-zag. Jack's city ways, his dashing demeanor and his elaborate sartorial equipment are more than the sweet guileless country maid can stand. Soon she finds herself thinking more of Jack and less of Alfred, and when the latter is unexpectedly called away. Jack loses no time to win her. Things progress rapidly until Clara halfheartedly consents to elope before Alfred's return. Her little sister, Dorothy. is a good observer, and soon concludes that something is wrong and that Alfred's presence is urgently needed. She forthwith writes to him. He promptly answers the call and, after some romantic and "...

Released as a split reel along with the comedy Mutt and Jeff and the Blackhand (1911).

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    • Author: Arabella V.
    A melodramatic picture of a village courtship with a city man as the foiled interloper. It is conventional in general outline, but there is a good deal of prettiness and idyllic beauty in its scenes; and on account of this and of the naturalness of the players' work, the impression of the picture is very pleasing. The story is skillfully managed and doesn't drag. The hero's city cousin came on a visit and filled the fiancée's mind with lies about the city, till she was ready to run away with him. The lover finds the two at the station. The villain doesn't give in at once and the hero has to administer a few uppercuts. The weakness of all pictures of this kind is in the heroine's uncommendable flightiness. - The Moving Picture World, October 21, 1911
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